Adultery News

Ottawa -
Embattled dating-for-cheaters website Ashley Madison insisted Monday that a massive hack and release of user data had not affected the site's prospects, with hundreds of thousands of new members -- including real women.

Seoul -
South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a controversial adultery law which for more than 60 years had criminalised extra-marital sex and jailed violators for up to two years.

Seoul -
South Korea has blocked the newly launched Korean version of the global adultery hook-up site Ashley Madison, saying Wednesday that it threatened family values in a country where marital infidelity is a crime.

Kabul -
A 21-year-old Afghan woman is serving prison sentence for not reporting quickly enough that she was raped. Gulnaz was raped by her cousin's husband in 2009, but she was convicted of adultery instead and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Each of Britain's three leading soap operas currently has a teenage pregnancy storyline; 'Emmerdale' has more than a touch of adultery, while in 'EastEnders', the evil Yusef Khan continues to play Dr Jekyll in the surgery and Mr Hyde at home.

Ghazni -
Taliban gunmen stoned and then shot to death an Afghan mother and daughter they accused of "moral deviation and adultery." The killing happened in the Khawaja Hakim area of Ghazni city on Thursday.

In 'Eastenders', an Islamic conspiracy has succeeded in breaking up the Square's odd 'couple'; in 'Emmerdale', the local vicar has an unpleasant 50th birthday present; while hearts are breaking in 'Coronation Street'.

The unreal world of Britain's leading soap operas is calm at the moment, apart from a spot of adultery or three, a convicted murderess released on bail, and a dog whose vet bills bankrupt its owner before it is put to sleep.

Joplin -
A church in Joplin, Missouri has created an uproar over billboards and a website urging married couples to increase their sexual activities in order to avoid sinful temptations like adultery and pornography.

Teheran -
The attorney general of Iran announced Monday that Sakineh Ashtiani Mohamadi, the Iranian woman accused of adultery and complicity in the murder of her husband, has been sentenced to death for the second crime and will die by hanging.

Tehran -
Ashtiani Sakineh Mohammadi, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and whose case has caused a wave of protests in the international community is also being tried as accomplice in the murder of her husband.

Tehran -
Protesters around the world raced to stop the stoning of a woman who was wrongly convicted of adultery in Iran. The Islamic Penal Code lists stoning as punishment for this crime. A world call for help has been answered and for now her life has been saved.

The United Kingdom, along with many other European countries, is being hit with the one of the coldest winter in years. Online dating sites have reported a surge in membership that correlates to the weather.

A Saudi Arabian woman, married to a member of the country's ruling family, has been granted asylum in Britain after she told the courts there that she faced possible death by stoning if she returned to the Middle East state.

The "moral majority" in the U.S. took over the Republican Party and dominated government for years. Under a values banner, torture was excused, aggressive war applauded, and opposing views condemned. Sexual hypocrisy was wrapped in those values.

In another scandal reflecting what some people call hypocrisy in politicians, Republican John Ensign of Nevada has admitted to an extra marital affair. This time he hasn't been criticized just by the liberal press but by conservatives as well.

Arrested on May 2 outside a ritzy hotel in Dubai, the British expatriate, working in the corporate entertainment industry, was charged on account of adultery. In her first interview from jail, she describes her horrifying prison experience.

A second case of its type in a year in Dubai, Sally Antia, originally from Hale, Merseyside had been living in the UAE for 12 years. Married and a mother of two, she was arrested for charges of adultery.

Dubai – In the West it would be unimaginable but it is reality in Dubai. In the emirate a British woman has been sentenced to three months imprisonment because she is alleged to have committed adultery.